Bad Voltage

The Livewires. High-tech lowlifes, bio-enhanced delinquents, or doped-out street kids, they’ve learned to survive in riot-torn future Paris, playing simulated war games in the fall-out shelters beneath the city. Soaring high and fast on gravfield skimboots, they head straight into the heart of violence and terror, then out and down to the safety of the tunnels to party until it’s time to run again. But for Lynx, a half-breed orphan of the Race Riots and founder of the Livewires, the allure of the streets loses its addictive power when he meets an Uptown heiress and discovers a life of madness and decadence too frightening to believe. Livewires and Uptowners clash in a cybernetic battle where sadistic revenge reigns, and Lynx struggles to free himself from a world that is slowly claiming his soul... First published by Signet in 1989. This book was nominated for the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1990. Jonathan Littell was born in New York to American parents, and grew up in the United States and France. His novel written in French, The Kindly Ones, won two major French awards. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. In the Paris of the future, a group of punk outlaws run riot. One of the gang rebels against the punks' newest fetish of cannibalism and becomes involved in an adventure with a computer network situated inside a stolen necklace.